Posted on 09/15/2012 5:33:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Via Mediaite. I'm not sure how to square this with the fact that in Tunisia today they were chanting, "Obama, Obama, we are all Osamas," since I'm pretty sure the Egyptian Copt who produced the Mohammed movie isn't named "Obama." Oh well. Erick Erickson puts it nicely:
I long for the days before YouTube when our embassies weren’t stormed in the Middle East.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) September 14, 2012
Go look at the map of today's protests assembled by the Atlantic. To the extent that anyone involved actually cares about the movie, what they care about is the fact that the U.S. government refuses to censor it. The government would like to censor it, clearly, but they’re barred by the First Amendment; Islamist totalitarians have trouble with that concept, though, so they’re holding the White House responsible for the film’s publication despite Carney’s obsequious stammering over how mean and disgusting and reprehensible and awful it is. They’re protesting the idea of free speech, in other words, which is supposed to be — supposed to be — “U.S. policy.”
But that assumes that you take their declared anger over the movie at face value. Why should you? According to U.S. intel, the attack on the Benghazi consulate was pre-planned and unrelated to the protest over the movie outside the building, except to the extent that it used the latter as a diversion for security. As noted the other night, the storming of the embassy in Cairo was quite likely tolerated by Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood not because they care about the movie but because they’re looking to impress Egyptians by defying America and to impress Salafists who think they’re not puritanical enough. Tellingly, after Obama phoned Morsi to complain and no doubt to remind him that Egypt still needs economic help from the U.S., the Brotherhood decided to cancel today’s planned protests. That’s how much they “care” about the movie. Islamist cretins have their own political agendas and know how to exploit pretexts to advance them; the movie may be in the mix as a way of getting people out into the street, but if they didn’t have that, they’d find something else. In an odd way, Carney’s shtick here gives the Morsis of the Middle East less credit than they deserve for being savvy political actors. And it gives Americans less credit than they deserve by thinking they’ll believe that if we could just do away with free speech that insults Mohammed, some of the anti-Americanism might go away too.
Then why didn’t they kill an offensive movie instead of Americans?
Good King FDR could have prevented WW II by saying the Germans and Japanese were mad at {insert name of Hollywood producer here}???
Subtext from the WH:
If we can get the public believe this, we can get them to believe anything.
Hillary and I didn’t do anything wrong,it’s all the movie’s fault. That is the White House coverup stance.
Reasons for attacks:
1. Because it’s September 11th (and now with the islamists in power in many countries, “protestors” have a free license to attack us on that date).
2. To call for the freeing of the mass-murdering Blind Sheik from US prison.
To say that this is all over that amateurish movie is a thinly-veiled SCAM!!!!
Beginning with that fawning Cairo speech, obama has done everything he can to hand us and our allies over to the muslim enemy!!!! #obamafail!!!!
GOOD NEWS EVERYONE!...we are now a nation ruled by SHARIA LAW!!!
They’d love to have a majority of Americans believe it’s due to the movie. The next step is to convince that majority that for the sake of security, we need to stifle free speech.
Voila! No more conservative websites, blogs, talk radio, Fox News, Glenn Beck, etc.
Does this mean that I, as an American, can travel to Cairo again - safely?
Some slick prosecutor needs to figure out what gets the death penalty here, charge the Sheikh with it, then hold a quick trial and get rid of this problem.
That, and the fact the vast majority of rioting muslims (or muslims in general), didn't see the video in the first place.
5.56mm
Never let a crisis (manufactured or otherwise) go to waste. Just like Fast and Furious was an attack on the having firearms, this is attack on free speech. (”It’s like excusing Jeffrey Dahmer because he was hungry” - Thayrone X - local radio talker)
We are under continuous attack by enemies, foreign and domestic.
RESIGN, Barack.
RESIGN, Hillary
(worthless, POS’s)
Life, liberty and the pursuit and destruction of socialists/totalitarians, foreign and domestic.
The domestic ones we can vote out. C’mon November.
The foreign...that’s another battle.
Don’t think they have reduced the cost of their tours, enough, yet....
2013 tours are only discounted 25%
but 2012 is 50%
Well, then, why aren't they attacking movie theaters instead of our embassies?
they are directed at the killer of OBL and they know it.
So, did the KFC they attacked have a movie theater in the back room?
yeah..good luck Jay...yur boss is cooked come Novemeber if ya’ll can’t make that argument stick....no matter how hard they try to beat the movie fantsasy....which is gonna be pretty hard on the poor shlub that made it...
Mark
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